MV Poem, previously MV Sunshine, was designed by Edwin Monk and built in Seattle in 1938 and plied the waters of Puget Sound for most of her years. Almost always shed kept she is is splendid condition having been well maintained and carefully updated over the years. In 2021 she moved to Victoria BC under new ownership and was renamed …
Tally Ho
TALLY HO is a 1910 wooden Gaff Cutter designed by Albert Strange and built in the UK. Originally built as a deep-sea fishing yacht, she was later raced, cruised, and fished commercially. She famously won the Fastnet race in stormy conditions in 1927. Eventually TALLY HO was left to rot for many years and in 2017 was in danger of …
Sue
Sue is a 1961 40’ Rybovich Sportfish completed as hull #48 in West Palm Beach, Florida by the iconic founders of the original sportfishing boats – Rybovich. She has several unique features such as teak decking on the foredeck and flybridge, and having deckhouse corner posts Sue is remarkable in that she remained with the original family owner for 59 …
Scamp
SCAMP was designed and built at the W.F. Stone & Son Shipyard on San Francisco bay as the last personal boat for the yard’s owner, Lester Stone. Her sister ship is Little Packet of Port Townsend. Scamp is planked with Honduran mahogany and her frames are white oak and purple heart. Her spars are Sitka spruce. Her previous owners, Tom …
Onward
Onward was built by High School students and adult mentors during the 2010-2011 school year. The designers were local geniuses Kit Africa and Jim Franken, with rig and sail design by Wayne Chimenti. This is an “Oceanic Dory” – so, typical dory lines but modified for purpose. The hull lines were designed to carry Mick Bird on a row around …
Anse La Roche
Roy Jackson and his wife Dolores took on the 50-60 thousand hour build in their backyard and dedicated weekends and evening over the course of 35 years. In the spring of 2021 I was able to convince Roy to allow me to usher his beloved ship into her next season of life- to care for her for a while. Before …
Townshend
SS/V Townshend and SS/V Bear are replicas of yawls carried aboard HMS Discovery during her exploration of Puget Sound in 1792 – 95 by Captain George Vancouver. They live today as thriving members of the Wooden Boat Foundation’s educational fleet. The S/V Townshend participates yearly in the International Pacific Challenge, the Sooke King’s Cup Competition, in the WBF’s Adventures at …
Yankee Dime
Designed in 1913 as a class racer by Manley Crosby (The Crosby families began designing and building boats in 1744 on Cape Cod and continue today with the 8th generation EM Crosby Boatworks) the Wianno Senior has navigated Cape Cods shallow waters every Summer Season by generations of dedicated families. Most notably the Kennedy Klan. Since 1913 173 wooden hull …
TRE
TRE formerly PAN 3, a danish build-from where there is some debate, met the pacific coast in 1962 or so, the year I was born. With an aluminum rig and race numbe 69 and the name of Bongo, she blitzed the course, causing the upset her martini men bargained on and took the Lipton Cup, Bongo made her way to …
River Dog
River Dog has a cabin with sitting head room, kitchen counter, a V birth, built in stereo and marine radio and shade top is 7×9 feet. Powdered by a Mercury 15 HP 4 stroke engine. Engine well storage for battery, fuel, fenders, anchors and tools. The boat sips gas while cruising at 5 mph with a top speed of 9 …